The Weekend Australian on 21-22 April, 2018, published Hughie’s story about a remarkable woman. It is titled “On Ho Chi Minh’s trail with Madame Sipiere”. The story attracted much reaction, including this comment: “Christine’s humanity and strength of character shine like a beacon throughout the story”.…

This speech was delivered in unusual circumstances as rain leaked from the ceiling into the classy Patterson Room at Suncorp Stadium that Saturday morning. A gigantic storm had struck Brisbane that morning. It was so huge and sudden that Police called on motorists to stay home; cars were washed away; and even the Eagle Farm races had to be cancelled
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It is 50 years since Hugh was in the middle of the Vietnam War. While some in the book industry say “books have the shelf life of yoghurt”, Hugh’s Vietnam: A Reporter’s War is now published by HarperCollins. This memoir of 1967-68 covering the Vietnam War as a Reuters war correspondent took 17 years to find a publisher — University of Queensland Press — but has never been out of print since.…

COMPETITION WINNER ANNOUNCED. Read on. Twenty years ago the above sandstone carving by Brisbane sculptor Dr Rhyl Hinwood was erected at the University of Queensland to celebrate the successful publication of some of Hugh’s books by the University of Queensland Press (UQP).…

Hugh Lunn was made a Fellow of the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences on 4 November 2015. He was one of a small group of scientists and academics, made Academy Fellows by Governor Paul de Jersey AC at a ceremony on Wednesday night at Government House, Brisbane.…

Reviews

A beautiful evocation of childhood. Don’t miss reading Over the Top with Jim. It’s one of the funniest most moving autobiographies around.

Rosalind Dunn, The Sun

“A triumph for Australian publishing.”

Ian McNamara, ABC Radio Australia All Over

‘Without a doubt the most instructive, emotional, enlightening and ironic book on Rupert Murdoch’

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‘Sometimes scarifyingly brutal’

‘Ken Fletcher was the James Bond of the tennis world. Think Russell Crowe in tennis whites’

Melbourne Sunday Age

‘A marvellous ability to take us back in time to where nostalgia meets reality’

When I read your books I return to another world.

Jonathan Jacks, NSW

“An embarrassing book to read in public. I defy you to read it without laughing out loud.”

Ray Martin, Channel Nine

‘Ranks with some of the best expository prose of recent years in this or any other country’

‘Can one really be so blessed with a Fred and Olive for a Mum and Dad?’

Susan Johnson

‘Powerful, sensitive and often poignant account of young adulthood in the ’60s’

Peter Charlton

Fletcher's romantic liaisons, flirtations with the rich and famous ... make for a rollicking read

Craig Cook, Adelaide Advertiser

Think Russell Crowe in tennis whites

New York Tennis Magazine

‘Has written truly about the Vietnam War. Even the lies are true’

A universal story about growing up.

Ross Fitzgerald, The Australian

Hugh Lunn writes of his Brisbane suburban childhood with great feeling and affection. It’s a book that had me roaring with laughter…a warm, witty and amusing remembrance.

Des Partridge, The Courier-Mail

A revealing, funny read for anyone interested in how the media works

Canberra Times

Brilliantly witty...a wonderfully innocent, beguiling book

Ross Fitzgerald, The Age

“Hugh has provided us with a large number of candid insights into his formative years, even some scarifyingly brutal insights. I’m impressed by the number of occasions when the notion of impure thoughts is mentioned… It’s an affectionate, slightly wistful, and embarrassingly accurate account of the way I remember growing up.”

John Dickie, Australia’s Chief Censor, 1989

“A wonderful, wonderful read. It takes pride of place in my house. I’m a very proud Australian and the things that that book covered, it was me. And I’m sure a lot of people saw themselves in all the things described. It was all very, very true.”

Wayne Roberts, on Brisbane radio

Reading The Great Fletch, I could smell the gum leaves.

Michael Watt, UK and Savannah USA

Searingly funny account of growing up in a working-class family in 1950s Australia…holds a special place in the heart of thousands of Australians and that has made Hugh Lunn a national treasure.